Grizzly Bear 399 lived to old age because we made room for her. She died because we’re in her wilds
This photo provided by Grand Teton National Park shows Grizzly bear No. 399 and her one-year-old cub after emerging from hibernation, May 16, 2023. (C. Adams/National Park Service via AP, File)
The life and death of Grizzly Bear 399 raised the profile of the species recovery over the last 30 years.
She was born in a den in the Pilgrim Creek drainage of Grand Teton National Park in 1996. Grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, an area of 20,000 square miles around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, were slowly beginning to grow in numbers from a low of below 200 in the early 1970s.
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